Herb & Bitter

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score45 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedJuly 30, 2025
• address516 Broadway E, Seattle 98102

Is Herb & Bitter clean?

Herb & Bitter is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 30, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Herb & Bitter?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 30, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
  4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
• 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical
  1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
• ⚠️2700 - Compliance with variance; specialized processes; HACCP plancritical
  2700 - Compliance with variance; specialized processes; HACCP plan

When was Herb & Bitter last inspected?

Herb & Bitter has 5 inspections on record going back to April 23, 2021, averaging 12 points.

Herb & Bitter vs Cascade

Cascade runs 87% clean across 313 tracked restaurants — 273 clean, 38 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 313 spots Cooked tracks in Cascade, this one comes out cleaner than 1% of them.

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How Seattle grades restaurants

Public Health — Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot — it averages the establishment’s recent routine inspections, so one bad day does not sink a consistently clean kitchen and one good day does not rescue a bad one. Inspectors score violations in red points for things that directly cause foodborne illness and blue points for everything else; around 45 red points triggers a mandatory re-inspection. Newly opened or recently changed spots can show as Not Rated until enough inspections accumulate.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated July 30, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.